Libz call for RMA Uppercut from new Minister

"I look forward to new Environment Minister
Trevor Mallard defending property rights with the same
vigour with which he defends his mistress's honour," says
Libertarianz environment deregulation spokesman Peter
Cresswell, who has now seen twelve years of environment
ministers come and go, and property rights protection
savaged by each passing minister.

"Speaking of affairs,"
says Cresswell, "I'm hoping for a swift and long overdue
short-arm uppercut to the Resource Management Act so that
New Zealanders can get on with their own affairs without the
encumbrance of bureaucratic bullshit and minsterial bullying
it empowers."

"Given the crucial importance of property
rights in human affairs and to the freedom and prosperity
New Zealanders deserve -- and given the role of fourteen
years of so called environmental legislation in trampling on
New Zealanders' property rights -- I'd recommend Mallard
begin his new job by committing violence on the RMA instead
of other New Zealanders."

"He should drive a stake right
through through the heart of the RMA and the bureaucracies
it supports, and free up common law methods of environmental
and property rights protection to do their job properly."

"If Mallard himself is doing his job properly," concludes
Cresswell, "he should get his head around the affront to
human affairs that is the Resource Management Act, and deal
to with the same aggression he applies to those issues which
affront him. If he does, I'll be happy to shout him a
bottle of Heineken myself."

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